But if he does not do it with premeditation,<n id="1" /> but it happens by accident,<n id="2" /> then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

<p class="poetry">The one who is tormented<n id="1" /> by the murder<n id="2" /> of another will flee to the pit;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">let no one support him.p>

<p class="poetry">Bravehearted<n id="1" /> warriors will run away naked in that day.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">But even the swiftest cannot get away.p> <p class="poetry">Even the strongest cannot escape.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">There in the north by the Euphrates Riverp> <p class="poetry">they stumble and fall in defeat.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Disaster will be inescapable,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear,p> <p class="poetry">then escaped<n id="2" /> into a house,p> <p class="poetry">leaned his hand against the wall,p> <p class="poetry">and was bitten by a poisonous snake.p>

Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live,<n id="1" /> if he has accidentally killed another<n id="2" /> without hating him at the time of the accident.<n id="3" />

Suppose he goes with someone else<n id="1" /> to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax<n id="2" /> to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose<n id="3" /> from the handle and strikes<n id="4" /> his fellow worker<n id="5" /> so hard that he dies. The person responsible<n id="6" /> may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.<n id="7" />

<p class="poetry">I saw the sovereign One<n id="1" /> standing by the altar<n id="2" /> and he said, &#8220;Strike the tops of the support pillars,<n id="3" /> so the thresholds shake!p> <p class="poetry">Knock them down on the heads of all the people,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will kill the survivors<n id="5" /> with the sword.p> <p class="poetry">No one will be able to run away;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">no one will be able to escape.<n id="7" />p>